Murder suspect Steven Daniel Storm asked for a shower as he waited to be arraigned by video Friday from the Lenawee County Jail for the Nov. 17 killing of Sandra Kaye Johnson of Addison.

The 42-year-old Jackson man said he understood the open murder charge filed against him when questioned by Lenawee County District Judge James E. Sheridan. Storm said he had no money in his bank accounts and asked for a public defender. Attorney John Glaser was appointed to represent him at a preliminary hearing set for Dec. 3.

Sheridan ordered that Storm remain in custody without bond while awaiting the hearing.

"Very well, thank you, sir," Storm said at the end of the procedure before being led back to a holding cell in the jail.

No details of the method or possible motive for the killing of Johnson, 63, was revealed by authorities.

Johnson lived in Woodstock Township and has family in the Onsted area. Funeral arrangements are being made at the Anderson Funeral Home in Tecumseh.

Storm was arrested Wednesday, hours after a Lenawee County Sheriff's Department detective obtained the victim's bank records. Storm was questioned at the Jackson County Sheriff's Department then arrested and booked into the Lenawee County Jail.

A special court session was arranged Friday morning to conduct Storm's arraignment due to county offices being closed for the Thanksgiving holiday. Only news media representatives were in the courtroom gallery.

Sheriff Jack Welsh said afterward that no further details on the case are being released at this time.

Johnson's body was found the morning of Nov. 17 at a boat launch on Crispell Lake in Jackson County's Liberty Township. Her home, a few miles away on Sanford Road in Woodstock Township, was searched for evidence by a team of Michigan State Police crime scene investigators and by sheriff's deputies from Jackson and Lenawee counties.

Lenawee County Prosecutor Burke Castleberry said Friday he cannot comment further on the case until reports are completed by detectives and the medical examiner who conducted the autopsy.

"We know a lot, but I've got to see it all together in a report," Castleberry said.

Money is believed to be the general motive, he said. Storm had a connection with the victim, but Castleberry did not describe it other than to say it was not romantic.

"He knew her. They knew each other," Castleberry said.

According to court documents, Storm has been unemployed since being laid off from a business in Concord.